OakTown Gardens: Reducing waste to ‘green’ Lincoln Elementary

This year, Lincoln Elementary did something few schools would have dreamt of 10 years ago: It formalized a green connection with Waste Management to exchange food scraps for compost.

Lincoln and roughly 50 other Oakland schools are now taking part in “Green Gloves,” a collaborative effort to reduce and sort the waste leaving OUSD during meal times.

The aim, says Nancy Deming, OUSD’s Sustainability Program Initiatives Manager, is “to have a program that the school and its students are directly involved in that provides a much more meaningful environmental impact.”